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Re:Imagining Change provides resources, theory, hands-on tools, and illuminating case studies for the next generation of innovative change-makers. This unique book explores how culture, media, memes, and narrative intertwine with social change strategies, and offers practical methods to amplify progressive causes in the popular culture.

Re:Imagining Change is an inspirational inside look at the trailblazing methodology developed by the Center for Story-based Strategy over fifteen years of their movement building partnerships. This practitioner’s guide is an impassioned call to innovate our strategies for confronting the escalating social and ecological crises of the twenty-first century. This new, expanded second edition includes updated examples from the frontlines of social movements and provides the reader with easy-to-use tools to change the stories they care about most.

This is the first book-length treatment of the concepts, designs, methods, and tools needed to conduct effective advocacy and policy change evaluations. The authors draw on over 30 years of evaluation experience; collective wisdom based on a new, large-scale survey of evaluators in the field; and in-depth case studies on diverse issues-from the environment, to public health, to human rights. Ideal for evaluators, change makers, and funders, this book is the definitive guide to advocacy and policy change evaluation.

“Providing a theory of social change that is convincing is already a tall order, but Duncan Green sets himself an even higher bar. The book aims to be a practical field guide to social activism. More than that, it aspires to be a field guide not just for the kinds of people he normally works with, such as NGO campaigners or grassroots organ- izers. It is meant to be a field manual for activists in the broadest sense: politicians, civil servants, businesspeople, even academics.” [Ha-Joon Chang, Foreword] Download the pdf for free by clicking on the ‘open access’ link.

There is a craft to uprising – and this craft can change the world. From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to Occupy, the Arab Spring, and #BlackLivesMatter, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change. When mass movements erupt onto our television screens, the media…

For over 20 years, Patagonia has organized a Tools Conference, where experts provide practical training to help activists be more effective in their fight. Now Patagonia has captured Tools’ best wisdom and advice into a book, creating a resource for any organization hoping to hone core skills like campaign and communication strategy, grassroots organizing, and lobbying as well as working with business, fundraising in uncertain times and using new technologies. Each chapter, written by a respected expert in the field, covers essential principles as well as best practices and is accompanied by a hands-on case study that demonstrates the principles in action. Sprinkled throughout are inspirational thoughts from acclaimed activists, such as Jane Goodall, Bill McKibben, Wade Davis, Annie Leonard and Terry Tempest Williams. Patagonia hopes the book will be dog-eared and scribbled in and always at hand, an insightful resource and reliable companion to the environmental movement. See more >

Legendary community organizer Saul Alinsky inspired a generation of activists and politicians with Reveille for Radicals, the original handbook for social change. Alinsky writes both practically and philosophically, never wavering from his belief that the American dream can only be achieved by an active democratic citizenship. First published in 1946 and updated in 1969 with…

In A Theory of Nonviolent Action, Stellan Vinthagen draws on these examples as well as a rich collection of other historical social events that represent nonviolence movements that combined resistance and constructive change. With this groundbreaking book, Vinthagen provides the first major systematic attempt to develop a theory of nonviolent action in decades, making this…

In this highly original and much-needed book, Clare Land interrogates the often fraught endeavours of activists from colonial backgrounds seeking to be politically supportive of Indigenous struggles. Blending key theoretical and practical questions, Land argues that the predominant impulses which drive middle-class settler activists to support Indigenous people cannot lead to successful alliances and meaningful…

August 13, 2015

Rallies, strikes, boycotts, sit-ins – these and other methods of nonviolent action can be used to bring down dictators. Nonviolence Unbound shows how insights into what makes nonviolent action effective can be applied to four completely different arenas: defending against verbal abuse, responding to online defamatory pictures, and engaging in the struggles over euthanasia and vaccination. This…

Tom Baker reviews Hahrie Han’s book ‘How Organizations Develop Activists’: “Han hits the sweet spot on the challenges faced by anyone who works with local chapters or groups. The characterization of groups categorized into 3 types—Lone Wolves, Activists and Organizer—rings true for anyone who’s been involved in working with local groups… For many it is easy to see activism and organizing as the same, but as Jim Coe points out in his review of the book, the ‘two strategic models are in fact based on radically different philosophies and approaches’.

Testimonials

Angela Davis

It is extremely important not to assume that there are 'communities of color' out there fully formed, conscious of themselves, just waiting for vanguard organizers to mobilize them into action... We have to think about organizing as producing the communities, as generating community, as building communities of struggle.

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2014-06-10T11:10:53+00:00

It is extremely important not to assume that there are ‘communities of color’ out there fully formed, conscious of themselves, just waiting for vanguard organizers to mobilize them into action… We have to think about organizing as producing the communities, as generating community, as building communities of struggle.

http://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/angela-davis/

Charlotte Ryan, ‘Rhyming Hope and History’ 2005

Individuals may be silently or vocally disenchanted with their reality, many complain to friends and co-workers. They dream of other possibilities but can enter the political process proactively only when they form a collective actor; an organisation sharing values, mission and strategies. Without an organisation, individual impact on political discourse is limited.

2014-03-30T08:04:35+00:00

Individuals may be silently or vocally disenchanted with their reality, many complain to friends and co-workers. They dream of other possibilities but can enter the political process proactively only when they form a collective actor; an organisation sharing values, mission and strategies. Without an organisation, individual impact on political discourse is limited.

Movement Building Center

Social Movements happen when a fundamental injustice is felt deeply and widely enough that communities mobilize to challenge power holders, institutions, and society’s norms. Successful movements fundamentally shift social values and culture toward a new vision.

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2014-12-04T17:15:55+00:00

Social Movements happen when a fundamental injustice is felt deeply and widely enough that communities mobilize to challenge power holders, institutions, and society’s norms. Successful movements fundamentally shift social values and culture toward a new vision.

http://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/movement-building-center/

Pete Seeger

Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.

2016-04-12T19:46:51+00:00

Participation – that’s what’s gonna save the human race.

http://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/pete-seeger/

Noam Chomsky

If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something. But the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from last time and doing it better the next time.

2014-03-30T08:36:31+00:00

If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that’s something. But the people in power can live with that. What they can’t live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from last time and doing it better the next time.

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